Menu font sizes

[David Corbin]

On Thursday 30 December 2004 22:15, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 December 2004 16:15, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
> The change in the KCM should propagate through KDE applications that are
> open (it takes like 10 seconds or so).  Other applications might need to
> be restarted.
>
> So, I don't know what to tell you.  I presume that you were having the
> problem in KMail since you mentioned it.  I tried "Nimbus Sans L" and it
> works in the KMail menus on my KDE-3.3.2 installation.
>
> People do report such problems from time to time.  Do you have the wrong
> font in the MenuBar as well as the menus.

Yes.  Menu, MenuBar, Dialogs, the "View Source Window".  And it's not *just* 
KMail.  It appears to be all the KDE apps (I've tried 3 or 4 four different 
ones).

I have, however set several KMail specific font settings and those work fine.
>
> Qt uses FontConfig and it is necessary that it find your fonts.  You can
> rebuild the caches and check this by opening a Konsole:
>
>  su -
>  <enter your password>
>  fc-cache -fv
>
> This may take a while.  It will list all of the font directories it is
> using and how many fonts if finds in each.

fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 22 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/CID": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/TTF": caching, 22 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/ukr": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/misc": caching, 52 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/util": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript": caching, 43 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/local": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/lfp-fix": caching, 154 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/encodings": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/terminus": caching, 18 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts": caching, 21 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/freefont": caching, 78 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/unifont": caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts": caching, 30 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/lfpfonts-var": caching, 65 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts": caching, 37 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/root/.fonts": skipping, no such directory
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 13 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF": caching, 22 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ukr": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc": caching, 52 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi": caching, 308 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: succeeded

>
> And/or
>
> You can run this to make sure it is finding the font:
>
>  fc-list | grep "Nimbus Sans L"
Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Italic
Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold
Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular
Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed
Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Italic
Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed Italic
Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed
Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed Italic


>
> If you have installed a distro, you could check the distro's help list
> to see if it is a distro related bug.
>

It's Gentoo.  And I will ask there.

> It is possible that you also needed to upgrade FreeType2.

Would that be this?

*  media-libs/freetype
      Latest version available: 2.1.5-r1
      Latest version installed: 2.1.5-r1
      Size of downloaded files: 830 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.freetype.org/
      Description: A high-quality and portable font engine
      License:     || ( FTL GPL-2 )


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